My Wife Knows Me Only To Well

I am busy trying to get things done

The phone rings and it is you again

You called once and left a message

I was carring laundry downstairs and you have to wait

I am going outside to cut the grass

I want to read and write but that will be pushed off to later

You had to go to the grocery store without me

You called the second time just to make sure I ate

I appreciate your thoughtfulness and the constant love that you share

I cannot be with you now for I have a list as long as my arm to finish

I am trying to squeeze everything in is like putting something back in a box it came from

Not a chance

No matter what I seem to do it doesn't fit

I squeeze I tug and pull and have done everything I know

There is no way this is going back in the box in came in

So now you feel my pain and suffering

I am tempted to just go for a walk and leave everything behind

Instead I am going to fill my stomach with the old stand by

Peanut butter and jelly

It soothes my patience and relieves tension

There is nothing like a P&J to take all my troubles away

Or at least hide them for the moment and make them sweet

For I am building up my energy and soon I will rise to my feet

I will tackle one project at a time and what I can do I will do

For now I am feeling better and thinking clearer

As my cat gives me moral support and a lick of love after a head butt or two

Don't wish for too much because he leaves me as fast as he came

I am on my own once again to face my life

I look out my window and see the curtain blowing

I have to look at this nice day where I could be doing anything but instead

I have responsibilities now that use to be just chores as a kid

How life has changed me in so many ways

I still can't escape the endless rat race of things to do

I guess I can join in with the other rats and take my place

For today I will not be able to go out and relax or be lazy as my cat and sleep all day

I have things to do and they have to get done

At least that is what I keep repeating to myself over and over again

Please pass the milk as I finish my late lunch to give me a kick start

I will be out mowing if you need me because the grass needs me

The weeds decieve me and my wife believes in me

Some how some way my day will continue on its cycle

From beginning to end where I end up we shall see

It is to early to tell and I will need all the help I can get

To finish before night fall so on God's love I call

Not to help me because I know what to do

But to laugh with me as I get my good shorts stained because I was too much in a hurry to change

We can both see my wifes face as I try to explain

I didn't have the time to change

Don't you see God and I were talking how much you are going to be mad at me

So just give me a smile and a hug and please pass me the water I left inside

You called again to remind me to drink but what did you think

I would remember everything

Oh the clothes

The same clothes that I forgot to take out of the washer that are all wrinkled and wet

Your work clothes that you told me don't forget to put out on the clothes line to dry

I have some more mowing to do

Talk soon and I love you too